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hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 142, 215; Dohme, 1ii.; Immerzeel, ii. 257; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 465; Kramm, iv. 1191; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 376; Van Spaan, History of Rotterdam; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 74; xiv. 119.
 * gem. d. Biog., xxiii. 365; Ch. Blanc, École

NEER, EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER, born in Amsterdam in 1643, died in Düsseldorf, May 3, 1703. Dutch school; genre, portrait, and landscape painter, son of, and first instructed by preceding, then pupil of Jakob van Loo; his favourite and most successful subjects were elegantly attired ladies engaged in some domestic avocation, in the style of Netscher and Mieris. He went to France in 1663, later to Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Brussels, and (1687) to the court of the Elector of the Palatinate, to whom, as well as to Charles II. of Spain, he was court painter. Occasionally he painted historical and mythological subjects, and later also landscapes, after Elsheimer. Works: Gentleman and Lady performing Music, Death of Cleopatra, Buckingham Palace; Boy beating Drum, Bridgewater Gallery; Couple at Repast, Mr. Hope's Collection; Intruding Cavalier, Mr. Heusch's Collection, London; Fishmonger, Landscape, Louvre; Tobias with the Angel (1690), Amsterdam Museum; do. (1685), Berlin Museum; Guitar-Player (1669), Rotterdam Museum; Conversation-piece, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Rocky Landscape, Augsburg Gallery; Two Boys playing with Bird, Brunswick Museum; Young Lady with Dog, Lute-Player (1677), Boy with Bird Cage, Tobias with Archangel Raphael (copy after Elsheimer), Carlsruhe Gallery; Conversation in a Garden, Lady playing Guitar, Copenhagen Gallery; Lady tuning Zither, Dresden Museum; Tuning the Lute (1678), Lady Fainting (1680), Landscape with Cattle, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Young Cavalier seated and peeling an Orange, Mountainous Landscape, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Landscape with Shepherd and Girl (1698), four others, Schleissheim Gallery; Children playing (1679), Mountainous Landscapes (2, 1700), Schwerin Gallery; Lady at Luncheon (1665), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Esther before Ahasuerus (1696), Two Landscapes (1697), Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Attack of Cavalry, Madrid Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 365; Immerzeel ii. 258; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 412; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 336.

NEFF, TIMOTHEUS ANDRIEVICH, born at Korkulla, Esthland, in 1805, died in St. Petersburg in 1877. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Dresden of Hartmann; studied afterwards in Italy. Works: Portraits of Emperor Nicholas and Empress, Grand Duchess Helena (1837); Grand Duchess Catharine (1851); Nymph Bathing (1858), Nymphs in a Grotto (1859), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Last Supper, The Holy Bishops, Chapel of Winter Palace, ib.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1844), 44; D. Kunstbl. (1851), 160; Raczynski, iii. 539.

NEGROPONTE. See Antonio da Negroponte.

NEHER, BERNHARD VON, born at Biberach, Würtemberg, Jan. 16, 1806, died at Stuttgart, Jan. 17, 1886. History painter, first instructed by his father and by Friedrich Müller (Maler Müller), then pupil in Stuttgart of Dannecker and Hetsch, and of the Munich Academy under Cornelius; spent four years in Rome, visited Naples in 1832, and returned to Munich; in 1841-46 director of Leipsic Academy; became in 1846 professor, and in 1854-79 director of